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Pawns - Board, Card, RPG Reviews - Posted: 10th May, 2009 - 4:49pm
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Post Date: 30th Jun, 2005 - 2:55pm / Post ID: #
Pawns
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Pawns may seem to be the least of the armada on a chess board, but they are quite essential in both defense, attack and later to become a queen. What are your thoughts on the use of pawns? Do you think pawns should remain at bay while Knights, Bishops and Rooks do all the work or should they constantly be pushed forward?
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Post Date: 2nd Jul, 2005 - 6:26am / Post ID: #
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When I play chess, my pawns are sacrificial. I use them to force more important pieces into bad moves. In fact, I don't hold any piece as sacred. Every piece on the board is there to sacrifice to the ends of the game. If sacrificing my queen gets me closer to checkmate, then I will sacrifice it without a second glance. When you get too attached to a particular piece, you work at protecting it instead of capturing the king. Of course, you have to protect your king though.
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Pawns are one of the most used pieces for me when I play chess. As they do work very well for frontal attack as well as used for an occasional suicide with a motive. But...
| QUOTE (JB) |
| but in the end game if I can I am aiming for checkmate so I do not really consider them |
This JB is one of the more crucial times to use them. A pawn can be used as a wall of sorts to prevent moves that the king can move to avoid a mate as well as be obstacles for your opponent to overcome in order to move a piece to protect their king. They are very useful in my game to perform in the process of a check mate.
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| QUOTE (Bwren) |
| A pawn can be used as a wall of sorts to prevent moves that the king can move to avoid a mate |
Oh certainly, I agree, I was mentioning that if I can mate with higher point pieces first for speed then I would rather do this than try to get a pawn up to square 5 or 6 before it entraps a king or otherwise.
Post Date: 10th May, 2009 - 2:09pm / Post ID: #
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The pawn is used for dominating the middle board in the opening.
Also for gaining territory and putting pressure on larger pieces.
It can be very difficult to defend against a number of passed pawns in the end game, if they are defended by larger pieces such as rooks the game can be over.
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